The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5)
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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5)
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
'T'en souviens-tu, Germin', de la deuxième nuit?
En te serrant les doigts ton anneau y cassa,
Tu en as la moitié, et l'autre la voilà.'
Champfleury, Chansons populaires des Provinces, p. 196.
Cf. Poésies pop. de la France, MS., IV, fol. 189; Puymaigre, p. 11,
2d ed., I, 50 f; Beaurepaire, p. 76; Fleury, p. 267; Rathery, in
Le Moniteur, Aug. 26, 1853, p. 945 f, 'Le Sire de Créqui;' Wolf,
Volkslieder aus Venetien, No 81, p. 59; Ferraro, Canti p. monferrini,
No 26, p. 33. And again in Romaic: Ἡ Αναγνωρισις, etc.; Fauriel, II,
422-25; Tommaseo, III, 141-44, 148-50; Marcellus, Chants du Peuple en
Grèce, I, 328; Schmidt, Griechische Märchen, u. s. w., p. 192, No 57;
Chasiotis, p. 89, No 28; Zambelios, p. 718, No 5; Jeannaraki, p. 237,
No 300; Aravandinos, pp 209, 211, Nos 347, 348; Passow, pp 321-28, Nos
441-446; Manousos, p. 103==Fauriel, II, 423. Several of the ballads in
Passow are of course repetitions.[127]
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#D# is translated, after Jamieson, by Grundtvig, Engelske og skotske
Folkeviser, No 16; #E b#, Scott's compounded version, by Schubart, p.
93, Doenniges, p. 33, Gerhard, p. 21, Wolff, Halle der Völker, I, 52,
and by Rosa Warrens, Schottische Volkslieder der Vorzeit, No 39, with
a change or two from Aytoun; Allingham's compounded version by Knortz,
Lieder u. Romanzen Alt-Englands, No 63.
A
#E.# Cochrane's Songbook, p. 151, No 114.
1
Fair Isabell of Rochroyall,
She dreamed where she lay,
She dreamd a dream of her love Gregory,
A litle before the day.
2
O huly, huly rose she up,
And huly she put on,
And huly, huly she put on
The silks of crimsion.
3
'Gar sadle me the black,' she sayes,
'Gar sadle me the broun;
Gar sadle me the swiftest steed
That ever rode the toun.
4
'Gar shoe him with the beat silver,
And grind him with the gold;
Gar put two bells on every side,
Till I come to some hold.'
5
She had not rode a mile, a mile,
A mile but barely three,
Till that she spyed a companie
Come rakeing oere the lee.
6
'O whether is this the first young may,
That lighted and gaed in;
Or is this the second young may,
That neer the sun shined on?
Or is this Fair Isabell of Roch Royall,
Banisht from kyth and kin.'
7
'O I am not the first young may,
That lighted and gaed in;
Nor neither am I the second young may,
That neer the sun shone on;
8
'But I'm Fair Isabell of Roch Royall
Banisht from kyth and kin;
I'm seeking my true-love Gregory,
And I woud I had him in.'
9
'O go your way to yon castle,
And ride it round about,
And there you'll find Love Gregory;
He's within, without any doubt.'
10
O she's away to yon castle,
She's tirled at the pin:
'O open, open, Love Gregory,
And let your true-love in.'
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